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by nirvana 14y ago
The US has more fundamental protections for your data than the EU does. The US has it written into the highest law of the land, wheras the EU just has some promises. The reality is this: In neither jurisdiction are you safe, because in bo
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by nirvana 14y ago
There's a technical problem with this. Dropbox syncs between multiple clients. That means multiple clients can change a file. IF the files are encrypted and the service doesn't have the key, there's little the service can do about a file
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by nirvana 14y ago
The UK is one of the few countries with a more active surveillance state than the USA. Hell, they have cameras everywhere there. (Don't teach 1984 in schools anymore?) The US government generally considers anything on US soil, owned by an
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by nirvana 14y ago
Well, if you get three-five small machines, put CouchBase on them, and maybe even install the CBFS (couchbase filesystem) project, do you not have a private cloud? Replication, failover, etc. You certainly have a private cluster. While "cl
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's balls, not bandwidth that are the concern. Iceland and Switzerland are possibilities. As is panama. Right now, the US has managed to violate he privacy laws of almost every country- famously Switzerland bank secrecy is no more. But th
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by nirvana 14y ago
The US government has taken upon itself the power to go thru safety deposit boxes at any time, for any reason, in recent years. They say it's necessary to "fight terrorism" and "money laundering" (which is a "crime" whose definition is so
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by nirvana 14y ago
Hear me now, believe me later: If you keep your customer data on your servers, it behooves you to host your servers outside the USA. If you do this now, while you're a startup, you'll have a lot less hassle in the future when you're losing
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's a shame they didn't test CouchBase 2.0 (or at least 1.8)... and really kinda silly, given that it is pretty widely used commercially. I think CouchBase may be the most successful NoSQL database, when it comes to commercial installatio
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by nirvana 14y ago
When I was 14, you couldn't just go buy a "personal computer", as the minicomputer revolution was underway. So, I had to build my own computer... and I did. (I think I started at 13, and finished at 15). When I say, I built my computer, I
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EFF: "Feds put up insurmountable hurdle" to get your seized MegaUpload data(wired.com)
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by nirvana 14y ago
I thought if you flew in or out of London the UK government subsidized the flight costs significantly, as a form of economic stimulus. Hence Ryan Air has $14 pound flights to Berlin, and stuff like that. (been awhile since we lived in euro
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by nirvana 14y ago
Southwest is THE low cost airline. That's their secret sauce. Virgin is being "the best way to fly" or whatever. Southwest cares about nothing else. They don't do assigned seating because they found that without assigned seats they were
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by nirvana 14y ago
I'm very curious to know how this app did its first couple days... I wonder about utilities like this on the appstore. My hypothesis is that you'd do $50 over the first three days and then less than that each month thereafter (unless you ha
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is the failure of google. I stopped using google about 6 months ago and started using duckduckgo. But at the time I stopped using google, one of the reasons I stopped was that the quality was so low. Hell, the quality of Google is so
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by nirvana 14y ago
Would you mind sharing a bit about the architecture of this project? What tools and technologies & language (beside lua) did you use? I'm guessing you just need custom routes (all the URLS are on your domain?) rather than custom DNS
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by nirvana 14y ago
What you describe, I think, is simply one of the Stages Of Being An Erlanger. It is unfortunate that this language has that stage, as other languages don't, but giving it another 3-4 months will get you thru it. For me, I was in that stag
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by nirvana 14y ago
It wasn't always obvious that Cook would be the CEO of Apple after Jobs left. This is the job Forstall wanted, but that Apple didn't want him for. The job went to Cook, and so Forstall was either going to have to find a place to be happy
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by nirvana 14y ago
I think retaining key talent is one of Tim Cooks' most important jobs... and this shows pretty clearly that Mansfield was tired of his previous job, wanted to retire, and Tim found a way to create a position that interested him, or at least
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by nirvana 14y ago
Typical falsehoods from Amazon. They call their display "stunning" but in my experience they ship low quality TFT displays, while Apple uses the latest LCD technology. Calling the iPad display "standard definition" implies it is 480p, whi
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by nirvana 14y ago
Rand is just code for telling mindless anti-intellectuals to hate somebody. Hence the references to Paul Ryan and the Tea Party. The fact of the matter is, on many occasions Paul Carr simply lies about what Rand said. If Rand is so bad th
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by nirvana 14y ago
You actually called a mentality "dangerous" that you aren't even being honest about! Instead of internalizing leftist propaganda and repeating it as fact, you should actually read the book. "it ignores any and all counter arguments even if
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes, in fact, this article is like every other Rand bashing article I've seen-- they aren't honest about what Rand actually said. It's politically motivated, and written by someone who has no integrity..... he doesn't care if he's lying. P
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by nirvana 14y ago
Are you enjoying being forced (by the threat of currency collapse) to give your money to a deadbeat country that has spent the past two decades in lavish and irresponsible spending, while you were working hard to better yourselves? And yet
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by nirvana 14y ago
This is what apple haters say about every Apple product. They said the iPhone would be a total flop and never sell the 10 million units Steve Jobs said they hoped to sell-- because it didn't have a hardware keyboard. They said it about the
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by nirvana 14y ago
Apple generally releases a non-retina device first, for a couple reasons. Mainly, they are usually on the cutting edge of manufacturing technology for their parts. This year it is lamination, and there are only so many factories capable of
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've been looking forward to this product since the rumors started. I've owned iPads and iPhones and iPod touches. The iPhone (original and 4S) were both great devices but too small. I could carry them everywhere, but the reading and bro
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by nirvana 14y ago
I understand the mindset that this list is coming from. But in my experience, and my observations of others (had a female friend who had an even more extensive list- spoiler- she was atheist and the primary thing she insisted on, was she n
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by nirvana 14y ago
You should get upvotes because you made a counter argument with specifics. (And that TV ad is the one I was referring to.) The funny thing is, and this is totally in the realm of personal opinion-- I think all of the advantages you mention
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by nirvana 14y ago
I applaud Microsoft for doing something new-- the new windows UI is very original. Further, they have managed to meet Apple in terms of pricing for a comparable iPad, something others have struggled with. But the big take-away innovation h
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by nirvana 14y ago
I get called a troll by people all the time for the simple crime of making an argument they can't refute. The guy on reddit wasn't a troll, near as I can tell, he was a guy who started a lot of subreddits and provided content for them. See

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